On the day he murdered a fellow school pupil, Prabjeet Veadhesa, then 16, went to the post office to pick up a 22-in ninja blade he had ordered online using his mother’s ID to pass security checks.
The parcel was supposed to be delivered only to someone over the age of 18, but staff failed to ask the teenager for any ID on collection. It was one of nearly 30 knives and machetes he had bought this way over several months, selling many of them to friends at school for a profit.
